Meaning

3 senses
  1. A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.

    Lochkarte

    перфока́ртаperfokárta

    a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes

  2. A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.

    (historical)Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.

  3. A card given to a customer and punched with a hole at each purchase, allowing a reward to be claimed when fully punched.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom punched his time card.

  2. Early computer programs were written on punch cards.

    ruПервые компьютерные программы записывались на перфокарты. — marafon

    deDie ersten Computerprogramme wurden auf Lochkarten geschrieben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. These computers use punch cards.

    ruЭти компьютеры перфокарточные. — astyng

    deDiese Rechner werden mit Lochkarten bedient. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Early computers used punch cards.

  5. Mary punched her time card.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
card with have holes or notches used for storing data:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
card with have holes or notches used for storing data:

Forms

plural: punch cards

Synonyms

3 synonyms
card used in early mainframe computers:punched cardHollerith card
card with holes or notches:index card
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmultipunch

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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